Cecilia Cassinger

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Research

My research interests lie in the field of marketing communications. I am particularly interested in how everyday life is strategically organised by marketing communication practices, and the tensions that arise when economic interest and lived experience coalesce. My doctoral thesis Retailing retold: Unfolding international retail image construction in everyday practice (2010) looked at the construction of retail image from an audience perspective in China and Sweden using a storytelling approach. The thesis introduces spatial storytelling as a method to capture how images of places are created in the tension between consumption practice and marketing strategy. More recently, I have explored the blurred boundaries of economic interest and everyday life through issues of personal branding and marketized forms of self-realisation in relation to working conditions in late modern society. I am currently involved in several research projects concerning amongst other tensions between corporate control and consumer autonomy at co-creation platforms, and tensions between city branding and citizenship.

Prior to joining the Department of Strategic Communication in 2013, I worked as a lecturer at Essex Business School, University of Essex, and before that I wrote my PhD in marketing at the Department of Business Administration, Lund University

Teaching

I am currently involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching within the following subject areas: qualitative methods, marketing communication and planning, brand management, digital media, and retail.